The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Subjective Wellbeing and Poverty: The Case of Colombia
The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Subjective Wellbeing and Poverty: The Case of Colombia
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DOI：
10.1007/s10834-018-9585-4
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发表时间：
2018-12-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Maia, Alexandre Gori
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作者：
Martinez, Daniel Morales;Maia, Alexandre Gori
现金转移方案一直是拉丁美洲国家消除贫困和不平等现象的主要社会政策。本文分析了该计划的影响，家庭在行动上的贫困和主观幸福感在哥伦比亚的看法。这些分析基于2008年至2016年期间全国维达健康调查的数据。两种经验策略进行了比较，以说明受益人和非受益人家庭群体中缺乏随机性：（一）非实验设计（线性和非线性模型与横截面和汇总数据）;（二）准实验设计（倾向分数匹配和逆概率加权回归调整）。研究结果对不同的经验性战略都很有力，并强调：（一）转移增加了对粮食不安全和主观贫穷的看法;（二）附加条件涉及对主观幸福感的不同指标的积极影响，特别是健康和教育;（三）由于对家庭主观幸福感各方面的影响不同，对生活观念的一般影响并不显著。
Cash transfer programs have been the main social policy in the fight against poverty and inequality in Latin-American countries. This paper analyzes the impacts of the program Mas Familias en Accion on the perception of poverty and subjective wellbeing in Colombia. The analyses are based on data from the Encuesta Nacional de Calidad de Vida between 2008 and 2016. Two empirical strategies were compared to account for the lack of randomness in groups of beneficiary and non-beneficiary families: (i) non-experimental designs (linear and nonlinear models with cross-sectional and pooled data); (ii) quasi-experimental designs (Propensity Score Matching and Inverse Probability Weighted Regression Adjustment). The results were robust to the different empirical strategies and emphasized that: (i) transfers increase the perception of food insecurity and subjective poverty; (ii) conditionalities involve positive impacts on different indicators of subjective wellbeing, especially health and education; (iii) general impacts on the perceptions of life are nonsignificant, as a result of divergent impacts on the dimensions of the subjective wellbeing of families.